Education Secretary and the new “woke” curriculum
District of Columbia | April 27, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: At his old job as the Connecticut education commissioner, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona wrote in a 2019 email that he wanted to take steps to ensure teachers were supportive of a new “woke” curriculum the state was implementing.
Cardona made the comment as his department was tasked with creating a new high school course on “African-American, Black, Puerto Rican, and Latino studies,” which will be optional for the upcoming school year but required starting in the fall of 2022. The email was obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Fox News. A message was sent out on Oct. 31, 2019, inviting people to an informational meeting about working on an “Advisory Group” run out of the quasi-public State Education Resource Center (SERC). That group was tasked with formulating the curriculum.
The next day, Cardona’s chief of staff, Laura Stefon, said she believed the State Department of Education’s social studies consultant should be involved in the SERC group, to which Cardona agreed. “We need to be involved,” he said. On Nov. 1, Cardona made a separate request that a specific teacher also be included in the SERC panel to create the curriculum. “I want the new Teacher of the Year (2020) Meghan Hatch Geary on it also, for several reasons,” Cardona wrote…
(Excerpts from Fox News)